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Dean of the School of Education
Nanette Clatterbuck
 
SOE Full-time Faculty
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Tim Bennett Nkechy Ezeh Jackie Sweeney
Susan English David Kelly, Jr. Carol A. Winkle
Kelli Esteves Erin Melcher  
SOE Staff
Cindy Blair, Advisor
Dan Diedrich, Director of Field Placement
Elizabeth Flores, Certification Officer & MAT Advisor
Gayle Hulswit, Advisor
Mary Pastore , Assistant to the Dean
Michele Polega, Administrative Assistant
 
Dean of the School of Education
Nanette Clatterbuck Nanette Clatterbuck, M.Ed.
Dean of the School of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2973
E-mail: clattnan@aquinas.edu

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SOE Staff
Cindy Blair Cindy Blair, M.Ed.
Education Advisor
Phone: (616) 632-2442
E-mail: blaircin@aquinas.edu

Cindy Blair, M.Ed.., and Gayle Hulswit, A.A., work on an array of education tasks while advising both undergraduate and graduate students.
 
Dan Diedrich Dan Diedrich, M.A., M.S.
Director of Field Placement
Phone: (616) 632-2427
E-mail: diedrdan@aquinas.edu

Dan Diedrich is the Director of Field Placement. He has a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame and two masters degrees, an M.A. in history and and M.S. in education from Indiana University. He started his teaching career in Uganda, East Africa, at a Catholic secondary school at the foot of the "Mountains of the Moon." He spent thirty years in the Grand Rapids and Wyoming Public Schools as a teacher and a principal. Concurrently he has been an adjunct faculty member at Aquinas for the last twenty years, teaching education methods and a graduate class in motivation and discipline. Recently the Grand Rapids Notre Dame Club named him the outstanding Catholic educator in Grand Rapids.
 
Elizabeth Flores Elizabeth Flores, B.S.I.B.
Certification Officer & MAT Advisor
Phone: (616) 632-2436
E-mail: floreeli@aquinas.edu
 
Gayle Hulswit Gayle Hulswit, A.A.
Education Advisor
Phone: (616) 632-2438
E-mail: hulswgay@aquinas.edu

Gayle Hulswit, A.A., and Cindy Blair, M.Ed., work on an array of education tasks while advising both undergraduate and graduate students.
 
Mary Kwiatkowski Mary Pastore, B.A.
Assistant to the Dean of the School of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2435
E-mail: kwiatmar@aquinas.edu

Mary Kwiatkowski, B.A., is the M.A.T. Program Advisor, working with certified teachers who are pursuing a master's degree and/or adding an endorsement to a current teaching certificate. Other responsibilities include processing and monitoring budget transactions for the School of Education.
 
Michele Polega Michele Polega
Administrative Assistant for the School of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2440
E-mail: polegmic@aquinas.edu
 
 
SOE Full-time Faculty
Tim Bennett Tim Bennett, M.A.
Associate Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2446
E-mail: bennetim@aquinas.edu
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Susan English Susan English, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2045
E-mail: susan.english@aquinas.edu
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Kelli Esteves

Kelli Esteves, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2432
E-mail: estevkel@aquinas.edu
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Nkechy Ezeh Nkechy Ezeh, Ed.D.
Assistant Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2431
E-mail: nkechy.ezeh@aquinas.edu
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David Kelly David Kelly, Jr., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Education
Director of Reggio Emilio Curriculum
Phone: (616) 632-2447
E-mail: kellydav@aquinas.edu
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Erin Melcher Erin Melcher, M.A.
Assistant Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2433
E-mail: erin.melcher@aquinas.edu
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Jacki Sweeney

Jackie Sweeney, M.S.
Assistant Professor of Education
Director of the Aquinas Reading Clinic
Phone: (616) 632-2066
E-mail: sweenjac@aquinas.edu

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Carol Winkle

Carol A. Winkle, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education
Phone: (616) 632-2434
E-mail: winklcar@aquinas.edu
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